Woman trolls herself on Facebook, gets almost two years in prison
A WOMAN has been jailed for trolling herself after she unleashed a year of vile abuse at her own Facebook account.
Michelle Chapman, 24, from the UK claimed to have suffered from a torrent of sexual taunts that came from members of her own family, the Mirror reports.
However, it turned out these were all from accounts she had set up herself as part of a yearlong vendetta against her father and new stepmother.
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Chapman had fallen out with her in-laws after trying to reunite with the father she had not seen for 21 years. But things didn't go well and after an argument Chapman plotted a revenge attack via social media.
She began by creating a Facebook account for her new stepmother, Louise Steen, which was used to send abusive messages to her father in an attempt to split them up.
More profiles were created for other family members and over the course of the next year she trolled herself, sending messages of a "very unpleasant sexual nature" to her own account.
She then contacted police to complain about the abuse, which led to unwitting family members being arrested and warned. Chapman's activities were found out when police investigated the matter and found all the Facebook accounts in question had been created at her address.
"She said that she wanted revenge on her father for matters in the past. She just wanted to make their life hell," Prosecutor Philip Lee said.
At a court hearing Chapman admitted to committing actions intended to pervert the course of justice and has been jailed for 20 months. It is believed this is the first case of someone in Britain being jailed for trolling themselves.
She has been handed a restraining order against her victims and banned from having computer equipment.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/woman-trolls-herself-on-facebook-gets-almost-two-years-in-prison/story-fnjwnhzf-1226819695574
A WOMAN has been jailed for trolling herself after she unleashed a year of vile abuse at her own Facebook account.
Michelle Chapman, 24, from the UK claimed to have suffered from a torrent of sexual taunts that came from members of her own family, the Mirror reports.
However, it turned out these were all from accounts she had set up herself as part of a yearlong vendetta against her father and new stepmother.
MORE: Five ways Facebook has changed our lives
Chapman had fallen out with her in-laws after trying to reunite with the father she had not seen for 21 years. But things didn't go well and after an argument Chapman plotted a revenge attack via social media.
She began by creating a Facebook account for her new stepmother, Louise Steen, which was used to send abusive messages to her father in an attempt to split them up.
More profiles were created for other family members and over the course of the next year she trolled herself, sending messages of a "very unpleasant sexual nature" to her own account.
She then contacted police to complain about the abuse, which led to unwitting family members being arrested and warned. Chapman's activities were found out when police investigated the matter and found all the Facebook accounts in question had been created at her address.
"She said that she wanted revenge on her father for matters in the past. She just wanted to make their life hell," Prosecutor Philip Lee said.
At a court hearing Chapman admitted to committing actions intended to pervert the course of justice and has been jailed for 20 months. It is believed this is the first case of someone in Britain being jailed for trolling themselves.
She has been handed a restraining order against her victims and banned from having computer equipment.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/woman-trolls-herself-on-facebook-gets-almost-two-years-in-prison/story-fnjwnhzf-1226819695574
